god is moving behind the scenes
Obey and Let God Move
Do you ever have that moment when you want to obey God, you want to stand for justice, you want to show love… but you don’t know how people might react?
You’re nervous if people will think you’re awkward or a goodie-two-shoes or what have you?
Maybe you’re worried people will laugh — and this fear lasts WAY past elementary school.
These can worries that last from a young age all the way through the working field and beyond.
We want to obey God to the fullest — but what will the people around me think? How will they act? What will they do?
Here’s a WEIGHT OFF THE SHOULDERS truth for you: we are called to obey, we are not responsible for how people react.
We are called to obey, and God will do the rest.
You’re not called to figure the whole situation out.
You’re called to obey.
We see this in the Bible when Esther chooses to use her role to go before the king in his courtroom to rescue her people– which was MAJORLY illegal and even punishable by death, no matter who you were.
Esther could not control the way the king would react or others would react or what might happen to her in response, but she was called to fight for her people regardless.
In the book of Ruth, Ruth didn’t know what leaving her family and choosing the Jewish God would bring, but she was called to choose God anyway.
In both situations, and in our situations, God is ultimately in control.
He ultimately has His hand on this world and the pieces moving in it. He knows already what the response will be, and He calls you to obey anyway.
Obey the Lord and let Him move.
In the book of Esther, God works behind the scenes and gives Esther major favor in the King’s eyes. He works behind the scenes to ironically bring the Jews’ enemy a downfall that he hoped for them instead.
As Esther prepared to obey God, God worked so that the response to her obedience would be above and beyond what she could have hoped.
In the book of Ruth, because of Ruth’s obedience – she ends up remarrying, financially secure and in the ancestry of both the future King of David and messiah, Jesus Christ.
God is moving behind the scenes.
He’s aligning things for His will and for His people.
This does NOT mean everything is perfect here on earth.
In the book of Daniel chapter 2, we see three men refuse to bow down to a king, in order to obey God.
The result? Being thrown in a fiery furnace. Ultimately, and miraculously, the fire does not burn them and they are saved. But for a moment, it seems that their obedience won’t benefit them on this earth.
In verses 17-18, they famously say, “If this be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. But if not, be it known to you, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”
They knew that God may not deliver them – on this earth – for their obedience, but that their obedience was for God, not for man — the God who deserved their obedience, and the God who would bring them to Heaven.
They didn’t know the outcome of their obedience but they obeyed.
We won’t always know the outcome of our obedience, but we are called to obedience.
He does call us to obey.
XO,
Meg